Section the Third, pg.17-19

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And how Pirate saves his pal from the Fall after no one is saved
(Hector Zoyd Ealinore Rigby) in the dream, a slapstick set for sure.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'whose ass was saved' reminds me of how much Pynchon likes the phrase, "he
> had his ass handed to him" a LOL line....a couple--three times used in
> GR....(and once in V, at least?)
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>      And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he
>> doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet
>> unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended),
>> littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma". Everything
>> from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of tobacco and
>> erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele strings, all seem
>> to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...
>>      Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of
>> Pirate Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet
>> told, though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old
>> college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems to
>> beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with Slothrop
>> at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this acronym..),
>> and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....
>>    Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the
>> locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for
>> ACHTUNG. What does it all mean?
>>    And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?
>>
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